Weegee Photos

Via: Weegee World
- Heat Spell, May 23, 1941

The hot weather last night took Weegee, the photographer, to the Lower East Side, where he found these children sleeping on a tenement fire escape at Irving and Rivington Streets.
Weegee says he gave the kids $2 for ice cream.
But their father took charge of the dough.
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"He will take his camera and ride off in search of new evidence that his city, even in her most drunken and disorderly and pathetic moments, is beautiful."

- William McCleery in Naked City

 

Weegee as Clown, Covers Circus From the Inside, July 9, 1943

Blowing soap bubbles is fun, too..., Washington Square Park c. 1944 Girls at the Bar, c. 1946

See more photos, HERE:

http://museum.icp.org/museum/collections/special/weegee/